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Certainly dont lie. the presidents been very successful on this front. >> going into the weekend the president sent his principles for the dreamers legislation. it in included a pr vision for building the wall. the president said he would do the wall at the later time do, the dreamers first and then do the wall later. did he change the goal posts? >> no. the president simply stating his priorities for what responsible immigration reform should look like. that includes those e three big prioritie...

From the podium with you guys. that is something for the president and congress to work out. we are laying out our priorities. that is what we put in that document and we are going to work with congress to try to get the most responsible immigration reform package that we can. >> question two, speaking of goal posts. >> that was like three questions already. >> good thing he is a reporter and not a math teacher. >> i was horrible at math. nfl commissioner goodell sent a letter of all nfl teams s...

>> going into the weekend the president sent principles for dreamers legislation up to capitol hill included in it was a provision for building the wall. the president had earlier said he would do the wall at a later time and with security measures and then do the wall later. did he change the goal posts? >> the president stating priorities for what responsible immigration reform should look like and that includes three big priorities what he promised congress he would lay out. thats what he did...

Program, at irans sponsorship of terrorism and all the human rights violations. the problem is, that the u.s. signed on to this deal, its partners are saying, and even the united states admits that iran is complying with the nuclear deal. i think now what you see is the administration saying, well, we may not certify the deal, but that doesnt mean that were going to pull out altogether. maybe well just focus on these other aspects and destabilization. >> trying to add on to the deal. >> the one ...

Sign on with a deal if trump comes out of the agreement with iran. >> i asked that question, too. even the president of iran said -- and a lot of people in the room agreed at the general assembly, how can anybody take the u.s. word if the u.s. is going to sign on to an agreement and backtrack, and what they are doing with the iran deal is changing the goal posts. president trump says hes the dealmaker. you are not a dealmaker if people dont think you are as good as your word when you make a deal...

Really hard bill. when took up health care there were hearings and debate and donald trump didnt do that. but i want to be clear that what im saying is crazy is the fact donald trump said artificial timelines goal posts for the republicans. >> only did that one time and it back fired. >> no donald trump said were going to get health care done x. >> because bill agreed on it. >> there was no bill. you clearly dont understand how congress works. >> where is the humility with this president and as ...

Legal sense. thats a high standard. you look at the standard that was used in watergate impeachment. lying to the american people was one of the exact high crimes and misdemeanors they pointed to. >> the goal posts have been moved, in other words. how does it get to this point where the president himself is on air force one, crafting a statement thats not true, about a meeting his son had with someone purporting to have dirt on hillary clinton coming from the russian government? >> he doesnt kno...

Dean, former federal prosecutor matthew whitaker. dana bash is here. and former senior obama adviser david axelrod. david, this is just one more -- again, i hate to use that cliched term, but drip in this russia story. how big is this? >> well, its obviously big for jeff sessions. it impugns him in a way at a time, as you point out, that is very, very inconvenient because he seems to be on the rocks as it is. i think he will argue what he has, which is these are uncorroborated and theres no veri...

The obama presidency and with daud frank during the obama presidency. until the president takes an active leadership role and drives the agenda and says these are the goal posts and the thing that this reform has to accomplish, its impossible to get anything complex done. the republicans learned that lesson the hard way in the past few weeks and i hope they took it to heart. >> do you think thats what he is trying to do tomorrow? is it too little, too late? >> i would love it if that is what the...

The whole thing was ridiculous. that is now out the window. thats a considerable change of the goal posts now. >> it is. >> maybe there was a crime. maybe there wasnt. its worth noting that change. the secret service point -- ive known jay sekulow for a long time. he is an extremely fine lawyer. very good lawyer. experienced extreme court advocate. what that tells me is that he does not have a lot of access to his client, that the client is not being forthcoming about the whole story. if you lis...